The crimes of the convenient store jumps again, says ACS report

The figure, which means that each store loses more than 6,000 pounds per year for crime, or 10p for each transaction, emphasizes the sale problem against which retailers are struggling.

The research confirms that retail crime is increasing, by about 6.2 million incidents last year, compared to 5.6 million a year before.

Not all retail crime are shopping. One of the big problems is that shopping is sometimes accompanied by aggression, with 59,000 incidents of violence in the convenient stores last year.

This is less than the previous year, when ACS has registered 76,000 incidents of violence in stores.

But this apparent fall of violence will be little comfort for those traders who have been assaulted.

Amit Puntambekar, who runs a local niche in Fenstonon, Cambridgeshire, was attacked and injured when challenging a thief and had to do with violent threats for months.

He said, “When your staff is threatened with a hammer, when someone threatens to kill you, who lives near your store and the police don’t take it seriously, what is it?”

Ian Lewis, who runs a break in Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, targeted the two -attack store in recent months, one of whom came between Christmas and New Year, when the thieves removed the cash car.

He said, “My business was a criminals in a Land Rover, and the cash machine was snatched. My parents live above the store, I will never forget the voicemail I received from my parents when this happened. “

The latest annual report comes under the conditions in which the Parliament considers the draft law on crime and police at the second reading stage (March 10).

The draft law aims to introduce a separate crime for the aggression of a shopping worker, to eliminate the 200 pounds for theft offenses and to increase the police powers to deal with antisocial behavior, among other measures to deal with prolific criminals.

ACS has supported the draft law on crime and police as a delayed turning point on retail crime and asks all those involved in the justice system, from local forces to police and crime commission, to make the approach to retail crime this year.

James Lowman, ACS executive director, said: “The levels of theft, abuse and violence experienced by retail traders do a shocking reading, but will not surprise our members who live it daily.

“Offenders concerning local stores, without fear of reproach, cannot be left to continue, which is why we fully support the draft law and the Government Police.

“In our report on crime, we have established ways in which the retailers and police have made a positive difference, implementing strategies working to keep their retailers and their colleagues safer and we need a stronger legislation to support this.

“This must be the moment when we are committed to concluding the crime crime crisis, through the government, police and traders working together.”